How do I remove emoji from string

Question

My problem is to remove emoji from a string, but not CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters from a string using regex. I tried to use this regex:

REGEX =         


        

Answer 1

CARE the answer from Aray have some side effects.

"-".gsub(/[^\p{L}\s]+/, '').squeeze(' ').strip
=> ""

even when this is suppose to be a simple minus (-)